Nestor Jimenez and Alonso Urrutia
Newspaper La Jornada
Tuesday February 7, 2023, p. 4
After pointing out that his opponents wanted him to confront Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador stressed that he will not fight with the former presidential candidate and, although he insisted that they have differences, ruled out that he has expressed a harsh response about him, “because saying ‘adversary’ is not saying ‘enemy’. Adversary has to do when there is no longer a political coincidence”.
Last week, when announcing the creation of the Mexicolectivo group, in which Cárdenas participated in some of its preparation stages, the president maintained that with this he became a political adversary. Yesterday, he pointed out that at that time he was unaware that the engineer had distanced himself from that group, but here they asked me and I did not know. And anyway, if we put what I said, I treated it respectfully
.
In his morning conference, he was asked why Cárdenas is not part of his government or the movement he leads. Because he has not decided to participate, he is a free man, with criteria, for that reason. Of course they want us to fight, and I’m not going to fight with the engineer, if anything, then with Claudio (X. González), with those who are there. They are not enemies either; They are adversaries, they are even our promoters because they help us a lot
answered.
Meanwhile, when asked if there are leftist cadres outside of Morena, he indicated that “it could be, but in general almost all of them were co-opted and they pretended to be radicals, and we confronted them; however, we have always been respectful of all expressions.”
The Tabasco regretted that there are those who after coming from the left they are staying on the side of the road, there are those who change sides, there are those who deny having been on the left
. He asserted that there are even journalists, and social fighters, who were consistent, but stopped being so and now oppose just causes.
